Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Caroline Miller, author of
"Heart Land," stories of Depression-Era Ohio and "Gothic Spring," a novel
of passion and bad behavior in rural 19th Century England.
Caroline Miller has published numerous short stories in publication...
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Host Emily Young speaks with Barbara Pope about her second mystery novel "The
Blood of Lorraine." The story takes place in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair,
when the murder of two Jews in Nancy reveals the darker side of human nature.
Magistrate Bernard Martin has moved to...
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Host Crystal Leighty interviews former New York Times restaurant critic Frank
Bruni about his memoir, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious
Appetite. What many didn’t know about Frank was his history as a
compulsive eater – he made the most unlikely of ...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his memoir,
LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. In
the book Williams describes how he managed to juggle two disparate
lifestyles--"keeping it real" in his friends' eyes...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Laurie Notaro, author of Spooky Little Girl, a
funny novel about a woman whose life changes after she is killed by a bus.
Laurie Notaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
She packed her bags for Eugene, Oregon, once...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Pacific Northwest writer Diane Hammond, author
of Going to Bend, Homesick Creek, and Hannah's Dream. She talks about her
latest book Seeing Stars, a novel about child actors in Hollywood with talent
managers, agents, coaches, directors and te...
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews award-winning writer Justin Cronin, author
of "The Passage", which describes a world where civilization is swiftly
crumbling into a primal landscape of predators and prey and two people flee
in search of sanctuary.
Born in New England,...
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Host Bruce Silverman speaks with Roberta Gratz, author of "The Battle for
Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs." Urban critic
and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that New York City regenerated
itself because of the waning power of Robert...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Jimmy McDonough, author of Tammy
Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, a biography of the country music diva.
Jimmy McDonough’s biography of Neil Young, Shakey, was a critically
acclaimed New York Times bestseller. He has also written biographies of ...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Greg Bear about his book, "Mariposa," a science
fiction novel of a crumbling America, broke and controlled by corporations.
Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and
fantasy, including BLOOD MUSIC, THE FORGE OF G...
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